1st INNOVATION BREAKFAST: Leadership and digitalisation - Why innovation leaders invest in minds and technologies

Digitalisation requires managers to lead companies through change and live innovation.

On 21.6.2024, the 1st Innovation Breakfast took place in cooperation with the WING – Österreichischer Verband der WirtschaftsINGenieure at the Technische Universität Wien on the topic of leadership and digitalisation.

DI DR. MANFRED GUTTERNIGG, Managing Director of Hilti Austria (2000 – 2024), and
DI CHRISTOPH SCHWALD, Executive Vice President Research, Development & Innovation at TÜV Austria, provided exclusive insights. The keynote and moderation came from isn CEO and Austria's innovation pioneer Dr. Reinhard Willfort:

Outcome of the event

In leadership, a leader should speak the languages of all hierarchical levels; at Hilti Group, this applies from the construction site to top management.
Employee participation in the company's success is becoming increasingly important. A variable salary component can be the start of this.
In large companies, it can be advantageous to start an innovation project as a ‘submarine’ in order to be faster.
Digital tools need perfect usability, and you can learn a thing or two from the games industry, keyword gamification.
The digitalisation of innovation management makes it possible to involve all minds in future projects, regardless of hierarchy and location.

Hilti Austria is one of the top organisations within Hilti in terms of market share, sales growth and profitability. TÜV AUSTRIA is ranked 15th out of 300 companies in the current overall employer ranking of the business magazine ‘InstRend’.

In the ‘Services’ category, TUV AUSTRIA is the No. 1 employer in Austria.

isn - innovation service network GmbH is Austria's first innovation service provider with more than 500 successful innovation projects since 2001.